By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com We live in a complicated world. Five months ago, we didn’t give a second thought to attending concerts or crowding into a 90,000-seat venue for a ball game. We gathered regularly for reunions, weddings and funerals. Restaurants and nightclubs were full of happy patrons who lacked […]
BY DANI TIETZdani@mahometnews.com When my daughters were pretty little, we went to Meijer on one of our weekly grocery shopping trips. I remember putting the girls in the cart and one of them put her mouth on the metal. It was late winter, and I was horrified. About 24 hours […]
BY DANI TIETZdani@mahometnews.com My grandmother was a devout Christian. After my grandfather passed away in the late 1970s, she moved to Waxhaw, N.C., where she joined the JAARS missionary team. She lived there for almost 20 years, helping to serve groups of people overseas and at home. She loved to […]
BY DANI TIETZdani@mahometnews.com If we were acquaintances and I told you that I grew up in Indiana, you might make a few assumptions. The first thing that you might assume is that I grew up in a rural area. That would be correct; a few of them, in fact. The […]
BY BROGAN HENNESY High School is coming. Though it felt like the day would never come, I have less than a semester left of eighth grade. Then I will start a new phase of my life. I’ll repeat the process of going to a new school, meeting new teachers, taking […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Explanation is not the same as justification. Sometimes they can be polar opposites and have no relationship or relevance to each other. Consider the story of a young man who was raised in a small – but growing – midwestern community. He lived in the same house […]
BY DANI TIETZdani@mahometnews.com I love traveling on an airplane. I’ve only traveled this way about a dozen times in my 40 years, but each time I get into the pressurized tube that will fly tens-of-thousands of feet above the Earth, I am overcome with the immense magic of what is […]
BY BROGAN HENNESY We all need friends. They help us through tough times and are something to look forward to. I am lucky to have a group of friends to spend time with. We sleepover, play video games together and go out to see a movie. We also have a […]
BY JASON SCHIFOCommunity Evangelical Free Church of Mahomet Thanksgiving Sunday has just past, and as a pastor, I joined scores of other pastors across the country in challenging people to be thankful. I pleaded with them to rise above the rivalry, division, animosity, and antagonism by becoming a people best […]
BY DEBRA JOY HART “You know that just before that first Thanksgiving dinner, there was one wise old Native American woman saying, “Don’t feed them. If you feed them, they’ll never leave.”- Dylan Brody “Thanksgiving is an emotional time. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only […]
